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Univariate Density Estimation

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Researchers and policy-makers are often interested in the distributions of economic and financial variables. Specifying their density functions provides natural descriptions of the distributions.

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  1. Faculty of Economics, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan

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Hirukawa, M. (2018). Univariate Density Estimation. In: Asymmetric Kernel Smoothing. SpringerBriefs in Statistics(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5466-2_2

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